a couple trees fell down in this guys backyard so he called me up. I removed trees , he tells me to follow him to his storage... bring a motor hoist. The guy gave me a perfectly running 3.1 Turbo engine 150k complete with wiring harness , ecm, accesories...im stoked Talk about a score... i've spent the last couple days cleaning the engine up... will post pics tomorrow.
Awesome find, do you know the mileage? Did he have the tranny also?
wow jealous.. real jelous b/c im spending 1600 on my engine being rebuilt...
Can't complain about the price thats for sure!
Thats awesome Ike. That seems like a sweet deal... :icon_mrgreen:
yea it was a pretty random occurance... forgot to mention he also gave me the intercooler and a tgp radiator in not the greatest shape but good to have for a recore. GPchief, its got about 150k and there was no transmission, these were the last TGP parts and he just wanted it all out. Anyway heres after a little wire wheelin. I removed the valve covers and cleaned them , the inside of the motor appears to be really clean, no buildup at all : )
(http://i445.photobucket.com/albums/qq178/turbograndprixs/DSC01132.jpg)
(http://i445.photobucket.com/albums/qq178/turbograndprixs/DSC01145.jpg)
I've decided that my auto TGP is getting put back together all stock. Should look nice with this turbo i just bought off Ken, I believe it was GOT2BGMs old one.
(http://i445.photobucket.com/albums/qq178/turbograndprixs/100_0284.jpg)
yup, and I bought it off Dave (Invasion1) a couple yrs ago
lucky lucky lucky.. good score though... did you even know he had this stuff?? i would love it if one of my neighbors had a tgp engine to give to me.. lol keep us informed on what you have in store for that thing..
Quote from: 89BlackTGP on April 13, 2009, 03:28:47 AM
lucky lucky lucky.. good score though... did you even know he had this stuff?? i would love it if one of my neighbors had a tgp engine to give to me.. lol keep us informed on what you have in store for that thing..
yea i knew he had the stuff, i stripped a 89 TGP for him a while ago because he wanted it gone, it had no title, the trans was toast and the subframe was rotted off. I removed the engine , trans and turbo stuff for him and he gave me the shell to strip. he Sold the trans to a member here i believe as a core, the turbo/crossover got sold on ebay. I've been meaning to give him a couple hundred bucks for the engine and whatever was left but never got around to it... then he called me out of the blue last week...
Quote from: GOT2B GM on April 12, 2009, 09:48:06 PM
yup, and I bought it off Dave (Invasion1) a couple yrs ago
sounds like this turbo has been around the block . Were you the one who had it bebuilt/polished?